Just what does it take to fly to the moon... and beyond? Take a trip into space with this package of out-of-this-world activities. Train like an astronaut, simulate space missions, build and test space technology and discover what life in microgravity is like. Do you have what it takes to explore space?

Want to do some science exploration that's out of this world? You won't need to force students to explore the pushes and pulls that affect rockets! In this set of activities, students investigate how and why rockets move by building and testing several different types of rockets.

Kick-start your students' creativity by asking them to brainstorm and problem-solve. In this two-part exploration, students are challenged to think about materials and solutions in a variety of ways.

Download everything you need to know about Planning a Night of Family Science Event in your community!

These engaging events are designed to create an environment for families to stimulate curiosity and explore the science all around them in an exciting, educational, community enriching activity.

Please share this resource with your community leaders, program coordinators, and Parents Advisory Council (PAC) members and modify in whatever way necessary to get more British Columbian's doing science!
Contents include event planning, managing volunteers, communication and evalution.

Events typically include:

• Science shows and/or demonstrations
• Make and Take activity stations
• Free door prize draw
• A building competition such a making paper airplanes for distance and accuracy.

Download Community-Wide Night of Family Science Toolkit (PDF)

SCIENCE WORLD'S SCIENCE FAIR GUIDE

Download everything you need to know about Science Fairs in our original, comprehensive guide!

The guide is divided into four sections, each with handouts that can be customized to suit your particular needs:

• Planning the Fair: From timelines to team building, this section outlines the steps for planning the event.
• Organizing the Students: Find explanations and support materials for students’ projects.
• During the Event: What happens on the day?—from interviewing to draw prizes.
• Evaluation: Includes a variety of assessment options, including how to prepare students for competitive fairs.

Completed all the SuperGreen lessons? Looking for a wrap-up activity? 

SuperGreen Trivia is a PowerPoint presentation that is set up to run like a game-show. Split your class into two teams and have an individual from each team attempt to answer each question. The person who can provide the correct guess the fastest gets a point for their team!

The Unusual Structural Strength of Eggs! In this resource, students will demonstrate several scientific principles by exploring characteristics of an egg’s material and shape that make it so versatile.

The strategies used by an animal to survive in its environment. Students will explore the special features of a number of different animals through a series of demonstrations and activities.

Sprinkle, Splash, Submerge, Soak! In these activities, students will discover cool ways that water interacts with various materials, all due to its special properties.

In this lesson, students will explore methods of converting primary energy sources into electrical energy. Using renewable (green) and non-renewable energy sources, students will generate electrical currents. At the end of the lesson, students will compare renewable and non-renewable energy sources in British Columbia and pursue creative alternatives for clean energy.

An earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of the Earth caused by the release of energy stored in the Earth’s crust. “Earthquake” means any seismic event, whether natural (rubbing of tectonic plates) or induced by humans. In this program, we will explore how this happens and some of the effects of earthquakes by making models, building seismographs, and acting out tectonic movement in a game.

Electric motors are everywhere! In your house, almost every mechanical movement that you see around you is caused by an electric motor. In this lesson students will use simple supplies to create their own simple motors and explore how attractive and repulsive forces of magnetized materials can create movement.

Black Light? Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Light is a wave of energy and not all wavelengths are visible to the human eye. Black light emits very little visible light, but has an interesting effect of making certain colours glow, or fluoresce. In this unit, students investigate black lights and explore the difference between fluorescent and phosphorescent items. 

Magnets are much more than fun toys. We use them in all kinds of ways, like telling direction with a compass or keeping refrigerators closed. In these activities, students will use simple experiments and observations to explore magnetism from determining what is a magnet to creating their own electromagnet.

We may not realize it, but the air that surrounds us is exerting a huge amount of pressure on every square centimetre of our bodies. In these activities students explore the impressive force of air and learn how air pressure affects their daily lives. 

At this very moment, we have the equivalent weight of a car pushing down on our heads. Do you see anything? Although we can't always feel it with our senses, air is all around us, exerting large amounts of pressure on our bodies. In these activities, students apply the concepts of air pressure to demonstrate how air affects our daily lives.

Not just a lot of hot air! Most children have played with balloons, but few have thought about the chemical and physical concepts involved in balloon production and use. In the activities that follow, students explore balloon properties and their use in demonstrating various scientific concepts.

Electric current is the flow of electrons through a completed circuit of conductors. It is used to power everything from our lights to our trains. In these activities, students will explore different kinds of circuits and investigate what is required to make up a complete circuit.

Discovering a way for people to take flight is undoubtedly one of the most awe-inspiring feats of human ingenuity the world has known to date. Although the first airplane was invented over a century ago, watching planes lift off and land still seems like something that defies reality.

In order for an airplane to fly, engineers had to master the balance and control of four forces: lift, gravity, thrust, and drag, also known as the "four forces of flight." By adjusting these forces, pilots are able to speed up, slow down, lift off, and land.

This module is designed to demystify each of these forces and examine how they contribute to flight.

Hummingbirds are found throughout most of British Columbia. This small, warm-blooded group of birds has several unique adaptations and abilities that allow it to survive our cool climate. This lesson explores characteristics of hummingbirds and the steps we can take to make our environment more welcoming to hummingbirds.

Sound is all about vibrations. The source of the sound vibrates, bumping into the air molecules nearby, which in turn bump into their neighbours and so forth. This results in a wave of vibrations through the air to the eardrum, which in turn vibrates. What the sound wave will sound like when it reaches the ear depends on a number of things such as the medium it travels through and the strength of the initial vibration.

In the following activities, students will use simple supplies to create, visualize, and feel sound waves, investigate vibration and its role in producing sound, and make their own percussion instruments.

Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your head? Why does rubbing a balloon on your head make your hair stand up on end?

When you rub the balloon, electrons move from the atoms and molecules in your hair onto the balloon. Electrons have a negative charge, so the balloon becomes negatively charged and your hair is left with a positive charge. This "separation of charge" is the reason for the collection of effects we call static electricity.

Students will explore static electricity through a series of demonstrations and experiments.

While investigating the power of the sun, students will discuss methods of protecting themselves from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation. They will explore solar thermal energy by examining a radiometer, playing with a solar UFO and creating solar ovens. They will use photovoltaic cells to power small motors.